Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach between the Church and the LGBTQ Community

In 2001, Kathy Baldock, a straight conservative evangelical Christian, met Netto Montoya, a lesbian Native American, on the local hiking trails near her home in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Their friendship challenged Baldock's cultural and religious beliefs about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. In "Walking the Bridgeless Canyon: Repairing the Breach between the Church and the LGBTQ Community," Baldock uncovers the historical, cultural, medical, and political filters of disc...